Cocaine Dealer Convicted Following Undercover Operation

LUNENBURG -A 26-year-old Kenbridge man of Varick Chapel Road, was sentenced to an active jail term of seven months to serve recently in Lunenburg Circuit Court upon pleading guilty to one felony of Distribution of Cocaine.  Rondreyvous V. Smith, has an additional nine years and five months suspended upon numerous conditions.

According to Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Clement, the local narcotics task force, under the direction of Lunenburg County Deputy Sheriff Adam Martin, worked an undercover operation on March 21, 2014 and purchased $100 in cocaine from Smith.  According to Clement, Smith was not the original target, but when the primary target declined to sell to the undercover operative, Smith stepped in and sold two small plastic baggies of cocaine. The task force waited until the other operations at that time were completed over a period of a year and until other issues could be completed before Smith was indicted on February 2, 2015.  He was not located for arrest until October 21, 2015.

The active sentence, of which Smith will serve 85 percent, is within the Sentencing Guidelines.  This is Smith’s first felony conviction, and his only misdemeanor conviction was a Drunk in Public offense in 2013 in Nelson County, Virginia, according to Clement.

Smith’s additional nine years and five months are suspended upon conditions of good behavior, supervised probation upon his release for one year, warrantless searches and seizures, counseling, and restitution of $100.